Li Rui Movies
A massive crocodile embarks on a terrifying urban rampage, destroying the city as a gorgeous model vows to extract a priceless treasure from its rumbling belly by any means necessary. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
A swordsman must prove his abilities to a dizzying variety of opponents in this witty take on martial arts action cinema. A nameless warrior (Song Yang) wanders into the Chinese city of Shuangye and announces he intends to open a school to train students in the martial arts. However, the man with the sword soon learns that's not as simple as he hoped; there are four long-established schools in Shuangye, and he must defeat representatives from each academy before he's allowed to open for business. He also discovers his Japanese weapons draw suspicion from Qie (Ma Jun), who oversees all four schools and believes the new arrival is an outlaw up to no good. Eventually, the swordsman must take on a small army of fighters to prove his mettle while forging an unlikely alliance with a troupe of dancers led by Sailan (Xu Fujing). Wo Kou De Zong Ji (aka The Sword Identity) was the first feature film from writer and director Xu Haofeng, previously known as an author and film historian. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- 2003
Co-directors Geremie Barme, Carma Hinton, and Richard Gordon continue their examination of communist China, focusing on the 1964-1976 period known as the Cultural Revolution, with their 2003 documentary Ba Jiu Dianzhong De Taiyang (Morning Sun). Following in the vein of their 1995 film about the demonstrations and massacre at Tiananmen Square, The Gate of Heavenly Peace, Barme, Hinton, and Gordon returned to China -- in secrecy, due to the notoriety they gained from their first film -- in order to research the history of the Cultural Revolution, as well as to interview participants and survivors of the notoriously violent and critical political and philosophical movement. Spanning from Mao Zedong's initial counter-capitalist proclamations from the mid-'60s to the communist leader's death in 1976, Morning Sun traces the movement's critical points which, more or less, turned the nation's population against itself. Morning Sun was included in the Forum Program at the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival. ~ Ryan Shriver, Rovi
Rating Systems
Blockbuster
BLOCKBUSTER name, design and related marks are trademarks of Blockbuster L.L.C.
2013 Blockbuster L.L.C. All rights reserved.
Portions of Content Provided by Rovi Corporation. 2013 Rovi Corporation.